Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
One of the most valuable results New Horizons was able to deliver in its historic Pluto’s flyby was more information and precious imagery of its moon system -which is far more interesting than anybody had imagined. A lot has been…
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It’s not the first time I cover this authentic natural wonder, including posting a link to a media gallery with some of the best Cassini’s coverage. They are the most beautiful of their kind, at least in the Solar System (we…
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Dust has not yet settled on Pluto’s amazing Flyby that New Horizons got more job to do. Or so it seems. In a way, it’s logical. The probe is the fastest spacecraft ever launched and one of the most sophisticated…
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Leviathan Wakes (2011) is a SF/ space opera by James S. A. Corey – i.e. the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. It is also the first instalment in the Expanse series, followed by Caliban’s War, Abaddon’s Gate,…
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If you’re following this blog you already know I contribute articles to Amazing Stories. Today I’d like to talk about the SF short story contest the e-zine has launched this year named after Hugo Gernsback (yes, he’s the one the Hugo Awards…
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Thanks to Cassini, we got spoiled for flybys over planets and moons – just think that we are now at number 111 (the last one was carried out on May, 7 over Titan’s Xanadu region – see this link for…
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This is an abridged version of the article “The invisible geometries of the Solar System” by Roberto Flaibani, first published in Italian on Il Tredicesimo Cavaliere, a blog that has already been featured in the past on The Earthian Hivemind and that is going…
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2015 is an amazing year for space missions (not that 2014 has been a bad one) – plenty of them under way and expectations are high for the results they are going to deliver. New Horizons: if 2014 has been the…
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No, Europa Report is not a Jupiter Ascending ante-literam movie (the fear is legitimate considering the astronomical proximity) and, while I have still to watch the latest Wachowski’s movie, trailers have given me a clear idea what it’s about –…
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There have been in these last weeks many news discussing aspects of the biggest gas giant of the Solar System, and one of them has caught my attention. This article explains how Jupiter would most likely be the responsible of the shape and the…
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